The family behind the Pillow with a Hole
Judy, our founder’s mother, had the idea for an ear pillow after a trip to the Sahara.
A sandbag in the Sahara.
Judy, our founder’s mother, many years ago had the idea to create ear pillows after an experience she had on a trip to the Sahara.
In the evenings she and the other guests would sleep in tents under a canopy of stars. A beautiful and wonderous thing, but she'd been a life-long sufferer of ear pain and to her horror, instead of pillows to sleep on, she was given sandbags!
Judy had always had ear pain. For years she had been sleeping with her ear between the legs of a teddy bear for support.
In her words: "I'd never been able to get a peaceful night’s sleep on a normal pillow, so the thought of sleeping on a hard sandbag filled me with dread. However, I soon found that by poking a hole into the sandbag and creating a little pocket of air for my ear, I would not only be comfortable but I would be more comfortable than I’d ever been before."
This got her thinking and she couldn’t wait to get home to work on some designs.
After returning home and with that experience in mind, she began to design and make prototypes of what became “The Original P.W.A.H®.”
Some designs were more successful than others, of course, but on her first night of trying out one of her prototypes, she was struck by the fact that she had slept on her side throughout the whole night and did not once wake in pain or discomfort. The following night she prototyped another pillow, and it was even better!
At first, I have to admit that I thought the concept was crazy! A pillow with a hole in it! Yet, there was always the inkling that perhaps other people would benefit from these pillows, being as effective as they are, and so, in 2014, we created The Pillow With A Hole Ltd.
The Pillow With A Hole Ltd
These are not cheap textiles, and you wouldn’t want them to be.
It’s expensive to make things this well. Well sourced materials with nothing hidden in them, made by people paid a proper wage, sewn from scratch here in Liverpool. Look at what else is out there: the rest of the market is made overseas, down to a price. We went the other way and chose quality over price. That’s why nobody else makes them like this.
- Made in Liverpool, England
- Premium YKK® zips
- OEKO-TEX® organic cotton
- Yorkshire fibre, spun since 1952
- Fairly paid team
Our workshop at Flux Studios, Liverpool.